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Jack Grove covers research and science policy for Times Higher Education, as well as on issues relating to PhD, postdoctoral and early career researchers. He has a BA in English from the University of Bristol, and previously worked on newspapers including the Cambridge News and the Peterborough Evening Telegraph.
Jack can be found on Twitter at @jgro_the
Articles by Jack Grove
In a world untouched by the Sun for millennia, a UK scientist found research heaven and arachnophobe hell
Boys have been deterred from going to university more than girls in the first year of higher tuition charges, a new study by the Independent Commission on Fees says.
Margaret Thatcher’s “revolutionary” reforms helped to transform an ailing university system into a world-leading higher education system, a vice-chancellor has said.
Part-time study needs “unprecedented support” to help kick-start the UK’s flagging economy, Labour peer Baroness Bakewell has said.
Watchdog ‘is not putting enough pressure’ on elite universities to widen participation, says report
Scholars downplay regional accents to avoid prejudice, Newcastle University study shows
Universities should seek inspiration from Germany when looking to involve business in their school outreach programmes.
With a few exceptions, vice-chancellors’ remuneration did not rise vertiginously in 2011-12 - a good thing politically. But are they still paid too much compared with their peers?
REF factor may explain growing wage differential
A Jewish academic who claimed the UCU’s policy on Palestine constituted harassment has been rebuked by an employment tribunal for misusing the legal process
Students from ethnic minorities are less likely to gain places at top universities than white pupils with the same A-level grades, a new study has claimed.
Unions representing higher education staff are asking for a pay rise in 2013-14 that is likely to be worth more than 3 per cent.
Three-quarters of Russell Group universities are failing to meet benchmarks on numbers of state school pupils, according to new figures.
Ministers advised to reverse ban on second degree funding
Foreign students struggle to gain recognition for Oxford Brookes’ distance-learning qualification.
Tutor warns of efforts to ‘sucker’ applicants as institutions game system
Obama’s State of the Union address draws line in sand, QAA conference hears
Universities will not be asked to admit more students from deprived backgrounds in their new access agreements, the director of fair access has indicated.
Minister of education tells conference his country cannot progress without building foreign partnerships
University vice-chancellor reveals the struggle to educate students who have been brutalised by civil war
For long-term prosperity, universities in war-torn countries must focus on rebuilding infrastructure, conference hears
Rick Trainor is to step down as principal of King’s College London in October 2014 after 10 years in charge at the central London institution.
A document that aims to bridge the gender leadership gap in higher education worldwide has been officially launched at an international conference.
